That image of smothering Palestine caught my imagination. I
picture some poor victim being pushed to the floor, thrashing about, feet and
hands clawing in the air doing any and everything in his power to push away the
pillow so he can breathe.

Now, make the pillow
invisible and all the thrashing around looks unreasonable and out of
control. Is that not exactly what our US media and politicians have done. They
freely talk about the unreasonable Palestinians who simply want to deny
Israel’s right to exist. Make the pillow
invisible and every reaction from rocks to rockets looks like the acts of mad
men. Nobody is in control. Nobody wants peace.

In reality:

In January 2004,
Sheikh Yassin said he was willing to end armed resistance against Israel if a
Palestinian state was created in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem. Hamas
leader Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi also said that Palestinians would declare long hudna in exchange for independence.

On March 22, Israel assassinated Sheikh Yassin, On April 17, they killed al-Rantissi.[ii] To this day, most of Palestine’s leaders have either
been killed or are sitting in Israeli prisons.
But if Palestine does not resist, it will totally suffocate under the
Israeli pillow. And its reaction to Israel’s theft of its land and water, the continued enlargement of Israel’s apartheid
wall, road blocks, check points, illegal imprisonment of Palestinians,
including children, the cutting off of electricity, and regular bombardment of
Gaza will go unnoticed.

And as long as the good citizens of the US refuse to see the
pillow and allow Israel to dictate our conscience, little will change. The pain
of the pillow will press down harder and harder.

1 comment:

Sadly, the good citizens of the US and elsewhere in the western world don't realize that their own salvation and freedom from bondage hinge on seeing the 'invisible pillow'. Palestine as well as the corridors of power in the western world is Zionist occupied.

Thomas L. Are

I preached for forty three years in the Presbyterian Church before retiring. If anyone would ever refer to me as a Liberation Theologian, I would be pleased. I started blogging several years ago to express my political and religious concern for justice, especially justice for the Palestinians.